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Staggering   /stˈægərɪŋ/   Listen
Staggering

adjective
1.
So surprisingly impressive as to stun or overwhelm.  Synonyms: astonishing, astounding, stupefying.  "An astounding achievement" , "The amount of money required was staggering" , "Suffered a staggering defeat" , "The figure inside the boucle dress was stupefying"


Stagger

verb
(past & past part. staggered; pres. part. staggering)
1.
Walk as if unable to control one's movements.  Synonyms: careen, keel, lurch, reel, swag.
2.
Walk with great difficulty.  Synonym: flounder.
3.
To arrange in a systematic order.  Synonym: distribute.
4.
Astound or overwhelm, as with shock.



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"Staggering" Quotes from Famous Books



... not going?" he said, staggering to his feet and attempting to hold her. "You're not going till the roshy morning sun ...
— The Sorcery Club • Elliott O'Donnell
... at the same time to disengage himself from it. The other woman had not risen. She seemed, on the contrary, to cling closer to the divan, hiding her face in the cushions. Her hair was also loose; it was admirably fair. General D'Hubert recognised it with staggering emotion. Mlle. de Valmassigue! Adele! ...
— The Point Of Honor - A Military Tale • Joseph Conrad
... the dangers of the Church (in spite of the staggering events which have lately taken place), I have not yet entirely lost my confidence in the power of common sense, and I believe the Church to be in no danger at all; but if it is, that danger is not from the Catholics, but from ...
— Peter Plymley's Letters and Selected Essays • Sydney Smith
... while the wind was up, and spent night after night out of doors. My friend Father Peter Flannery, who is my chief authority for this history, told me that often, riding on his sick calls in stormy weather, he met Andy staggering along the rough roads. ...
— The Idler, Volume III., Issue XIII., February 1893 - An Illustrated Monthly. Edited By Jerome K. Jerome & Robert Barr • Various
... new-fangled stuff is this you've got?" broke in a half-drunken creature, staggering up, and holding on to the bar-railing. "Let ...
— The Lights and Shadows of Real Life • T.S. Arthur


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